6) copper for wires? Collect them yourselves throughout the district and volost [units] (a thin hint at church bells and so forth);

7) organize instruction in electricity as follows.

Could not something along these lines be thought through, worked out, and decreed?

Your Lenin

*Written in December 1920*

*First published*

*22 January 1925 in the newspaper*

*Printed from the manuscript*

*"Economic Life," No. 18*

**TO V. D. BONCH-BRUEVICH**

Did you receive Semashko's order?57

I earnestly request that you throw all your efforts into it and report to me weekly on the actual results of what has been accomplished.